Re: Mysterious Account Lockouts

From: Bill B (bbauling_at_fakeemail.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:25:31 -0500

One possibility that I have run into is the following.

If a user changes thier password and is still logged in on an different
machine (maybe they have a console locked somewhere) , you'll get a lockout
because the old login passes the old security info periodically to renew its
key (or something along those lines).

If scheduled tasks are running under a username with the old password, this
could also cause a lockout depending on how often it attempts to run and the
lockout threshold.

Additionally, I saw a guess that It could be because they have persistent
mappings that were originally set up under the original password, but that
doesn't make sense to me. Maybe someone can let me know if that is even a
possibility.

"Paul" <P@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:0d3501c3576b$ee107900$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello,
> We have suddenly started to experience mysteriously random
> users, for no reason at all, accounts lockout. We have
> about 1200 users and a couple a day lockout.
>
> We are running AD on Windows 2000 with post sp3 patches.
> It may have started after we went to sp3 but we can't say
> this for certain.
>
> Has anyone seen or experienced anything like this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul